Church members will come together for a closed meeting Saturday night, but they decided to let everyone stay home with their families this Sunday. They compared losing the building, which had recently undergone seven years of painstaking renovations, to the death of a loved one.

The Sancturary of the Holy Spirit was the first brick church in Winder. There has been so much interest in it since Friday's fire that church leaders said their websitecrashed Saturday. They've contacted their Internet service provider to increase bandwith.

The church has also decided to set up an account to help with the rebuilding process. No details are yet available.